News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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2017
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2018
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The Futures of Legal Education, Milton Keynes
British Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Friends' Dinner, London
Tracking People, Leeds
Joint Meeting of the LSA and CLSA, Toronto, Canada: call for papers
The Real Life of PropertyThe Real Life of Property, Toronto, Canada: call for papers
Centre for European Law Annual Lecture, London
WG Hart Legal Workshop 2018: Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights, London: call for papers
WG Hart Legal Workshop 2019: Call for proposals and the nomination for academic directors
Compulsory Mediation in the Civil Courts: Opportunity or threat?, London
Power, Property and the Law of Trusts Revisited: Roger Cotterrell's contribution to critical trusts scholarshipPower, Property and the Law of Trusts Revisited: Roger Cotterrell's contribution to critical trusts scholarship, Canterbury: further information available and registration is now open – the SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event
2017
September
Exhibition: Musine Kokalari, the Albanian writer and political dissident
Dates: 11 September–16 October 2017
Venue: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Curator: Dr Agata Fijalkowski (Lancaster University Law School)
Please see attachment for further details.
Sexuality at the Bar: An empirical exploration into the experiences of LGBT+ barristers in England & Wales
Date: 25 September 2017
Venue: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, London
Please see website for details of this free event.
The Futures of Legal Education
Date: 26 September 2017
Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Keynote speaker: Fiona Cownie
Please see website for details.
CEPLER Workshop: Re-imagining Land Law
Date: 26 September 2017
Venue: Birmingham Law School
This event is free to attend. See website for details and sign-up.
The Futures of Legal Education
Date: 26 September 2017
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes
Please see website for details.
6th Conference of the European Assocation of Health Law
Dates: 28–29 September 2017
Venue: University of Bergen, Norway
Please see website for details.
October
Centre for the Study of Women and Gender: Graduate seminar series 2017–2018
Dates: October 2017–March 2018
Venue: Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, Warwick University
Please see flyer for details.
Women in Education: Professional women conference series
Date: 12 October 2017
Venue: TBA, London
Please see website for details.
Law Commission Consultation on the Law of Wills
Date: 12 October 2017
Venue: Birmingham Law School, Birmingham
Presentations by: Professor Nicholas Hopkins, the Family, Property and Trust Law Commissioner and Spencer Clarke, the lawyer leading the wills project
Please see website for details.
Memory Laws: Legal regulation of historical interpretations
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Please see flyer for details.
Compulsory Mediation in the Civil Courts: Opportunity or threat?
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: Woburn House, London
An event of the Academic Committee of the Civil Mediation Council. Please see flyer for details.
JUSTICE Human Rights Law Conference
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Tudor Street, London
Please see website for full details. Booking is now open.
Next Steps for Civil Justice Reform: Court modernisation, civil litigation and fixed recoverable costs
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: The Caledonian Club, London
Guest of honour: Lord Justice Briggs, Deputy Head of Civil Justice and Lead, Civil Courts Structure Review
Please see website for further details.
Book Launch: The Dynamics of Exclusionary Constitutionalism: Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
Date: 16 October 2017
Venue: City, University of London
Speakers: Professor Penny Green (QMUL); Dr Mara Malagodi (City); Dr Mazen Masri (City)
See website for details.
The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform: The interface between public international law and substantive contract law
Date: 20 October 2017
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Contact Convenors: Dr This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Associate Research Fellow at IALS and Dr This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Exeter
Please see website for details.
Centre for European Law Annual Lecture
Date: 23 October 2017
Venue: Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Theme: Everything is connected – the international dimension of banking regulation and supervision
Speaker: Mrs Daniele Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board, European Central Bank
This event is free but please register. See website for details.
Abortion Act 1967: A promise fulfilled?
Dates: 24–25 October 2017
Venue: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London
Please visit website for details.
Death in Punishment
Dates: 25–26 October 2017
Venue: Bartolomé House, Winter Street, Sheffield
Organised by the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield. Please see invitation and website for details.
Power, Property and the Law of Trusts Revisited: Roger Cotterrell's contribution to critical trusts scholarship
Dates: 25–26 October 2017
Venue: Kent University, Canterbury
Full details are now available, including speakers and themes. See also the poster: Further information is also available on the website and registration is now open. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event via our Seminar Competition
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Inaugural Lecture by Professor Diamond Ashiagbor: Telling stories about law and development, London
Date: 26 October 2017
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speaker: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor
Please see website for details. Attendance is free but booking is required.
Criminal Justice and Accountability in Africa: National and regional developments
Dates: 26–27 October 2017
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London
Please see flyer for details.
Workshop on Professionalism and Vulnerability
Dates: 27–28 October 2017
Venue: University of Leeds
A Collaboration between the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiatives at Emory and Leeds Universities. Please see attachment for details.
November
British Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Friends' Dinner
Date: 1 November 2017
Venue: Museum of the Order of St John, Clerkenwell, London
Speakers: Dr Marin Hall and James Hines QC
Please see flyer for details.
One Bar: Threats, opportunities and strengths – Annual Bar and Young Bar Conference
Date: 4 November 2017
Venue: Westminster Park Plaza, London
Please see flyer for details. Special rates available for legal academics.
Tracking People
Date: 9 November 2017
Venue: Woburn House Conference Centre, Tavistock Square, London
This event is organised by the Tracking People Network, University of Leeds. Please see website for details.
Where next for probation services in England and Wales? Priorities for 'Through the Gate' resettlement and options for the Transforming Rehabilitation framework
Date: 7 November 2017
Venue: Central London
Guest of Honour: Dame Glenys Stacey, HM Chief Inspector of Probation
Please see website for details of this Westminster Legal Policy Forum event.
Mediation Practice and Family Law Updates 2017: Whose truth is it anyway?,
Dates: 9 November 2017 (Stafford), 16 November 2017 (London)
Venue: The Apothecary, Greegate Street, Stafford/Volutary Action Islington, London
Trainers: Professor Chris Barton and Professor Neil Robinson
Please see booking form and flyers for details: Stafford; London.
IALS Information Law and Policy Centre’s Annual Conference 2017: Children and digital rights – regulating freedoms and safeguards, London
Date: 17 November 2017
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please see website for details.
UK IVR Annual Conference: Law, rationality and the market
Dates: 17–18 November 2017
Venue: School of Law, University of Sheffield
Please see flyer for details.
Democracy and the Rule of Law: Relationships, challenges, and conflicts
Date: 18 November 2017
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Theme: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
This is a Centre for the Study of International Peace and Security event. Please see flyer for details.
ESRAN UKI Workshop: call for abstracts
Date: 24 November 2017
Venue: University of Warwick
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 13 October 2017.
December
LSAANZ Conference 2017
Dates: 6–9 December 2017
Venue: Otago University, Dunedin New Zealand
Hosted by the University of Otago Legal Issues Centre and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre for Research Excellence. Please see website for details.
2018
March
Redesigning Justice: Promoting civil rights, trust and fairness: call for papers
Dates: 21–22 March 2018
Venue: Keble College, Oxford
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Please see website for details. Call closes: 4 December 2017.
SLSA 2018: Posthumanism Current Topics Panel: call for expressions of interest
Dates: 27–29 March 2018
Venue: University of Bristol
Professor Matthew Weait (University of Portsmouth) is interested in running a 'Current Topics' Panel at the SLSA conference in Bristol next year with a focus on 'Posthumanism' and its impact on legal theory, research, and scholarship. If any colleagues are interested in developing this or participating in such a Panel, could they contact him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before Friday 15 September 2018, indicating very roughly their potential contribution? This will allow time to share ideas and to put together a proposal to send to the organisers by the deadline of 1 October 2018 (see Marie Selwood's email of 15 August).
April
Modern Studies in Property Law
Date: 10 April 2018
Venue: UCL Laws, Bentham House, London
Please see website for details.
May
19th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: call for papers
Dates: 23–25 May 2018
Venue: Örebro University, Sweden
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 1 December 2017.
June
Joint Meeting of the LSA and CLSA: call for papers
Dates: 7–10 June 2018
Venue: Toronto Canada
Please see website for details. Closing date for submissions: 18 October 2017.
The Real Life of Property: call for papers
Dates: 7–10 June 2018
Venue: Toronto Canada
This is a call from the Socio-Legal Property Network of the Law and Society Association (LSA) for submissions for panels to be held at the Joint LSA and Canadian Law and Society Annual Meeting. Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 29 September 2017.
WG Hart Legal Workshop 2018: Building a 21st Century Bill of Rights: call for papers
Dates: 11–12 June 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Please see attachment for details of call and confirmed speakers. Closing date: 31 December 2017.
Elder Law and its Discontents, Tel Aviv
Dates: 18–19 June 2018
Venue: Tel Aviv University, Israel
Please see flyer for details.
July
National Centre for Research Methods: Research methods festival 2018
Dates: 3–5 July 2018
Venue: University of Bath
Please see webpage for details.
2019
WG Hart Legal Workshop 2019: Call for proposals and the nomination for academic directors
Date: tbc
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please see website for details. Closing date: 20 November 2017.